Agreed for MOST people it is not what most days look like- but for some parents the left may be a BEST case scenario. So if we split the middle we could still call it “average” a single day, if statistically unlikely that any particular day may go that way. Averages kinda suck as a metric a lot of the time. The average person on earth has (rounded up) 1 testicle. If you’re reading this and you check right now... statistically you are unlikely (but could) have just one. So “average” means 1 testicle.
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There are multiple kinds of averages, and you know that. A modal average (the one you use to know what is the most common occurrence) shows that an average human male has two testicles, because that's what is most common.
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Unless you're an awful parent, having everything in the left column happen to you on one day is statistically unlikely to ever happen in your entire life.
There are multiple types of average. That’s my point. When we say “average” we are relying on assumption to what type of average is being applied, and that it is the correct type. It is also statistically unlikely all those things would happen in a single day- but the same could be said of any list which had all but the most generic of cold readings on it. “You will wake up...” if you’re reading that.. it’s self fulfilling. “You will read something.” Again... you read that. So... self fulfilling. But even if not the odds you’ll read a thing in a day are pretty high.
The odds you would go to a zoo on any particular day- let alone commonly on weekend- are fairly low for most people. So that by itself already would make the exact sequence of events described highly unlikely. But... I doubt they were going for prophecy and more hyperbole. It’s equally unlikely most anyone I know would sleep until 11am, or stay in bed watching movies after waking up.
On my way back from London yesterday, there was someone's wailing crotch goblin less than a meter from me. Dear lord, it was the loudest thing i've ever heard in my life. Not even joking.
my sis-in- law and my brother just had their second daughter and everytime i look at them, i cant help but thinking why? why would you do this to yourself? twice. not once but twice.
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Unless you're an awful parent, having everything in the left column happen to you on one day is statistically unlikely to ever happen in your entire life.